PS261 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Episodic Memory, Spatial Memory, Aphelocoma
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Perishables must be recovered in a timely manner. Only useful if competitor cannot get your food: caching and recovery is a rich source of information about comparative cognition, spatial memory in food caching and recovery. Numerous studies focused on questions related to spatial memory and spatial learning and memory that is involved: before conclusion that memory for specific spatial location involvement can be accepted, other possibilities have to be ruled out. Birds may find caches by searching randomly among possible cache sites. Store food in particular types of location. Mark food storage sites somehow, then look for these marks. Able to smell or see stored food: balda and kamil (1992) Nutcrackers used spatial memory to find cache spots, can last as long as 285 days: episodic memory in food caching and recovery. Episodic memory memory for a specific event or episode, rather than facts or ways of doing things.
